Tuesday, 20 January 2026

TOON TUESDAY #87

This week's prominent theme is Starmer's increasing litany of u-turns.  There's also some cancelled elections, defections to Reform and a warmonger being appointed to a 'board of peace'...

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph
Ben Garrison for The Guardian
Graeme Bandeira for The Northern Agenda
Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph
Morten Morland for The Times
Peter Brookes for The Times
Stanley McMurtry for The Mail on Sunday
Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph
Matt Pritchett for The Sunday Telegraph
Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph
Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegraph

"NAB THE BASTARDS"

Cllr Susanna Pressel hates British flags

The left have some sinister priorities when it comes to policing.  This was exemplified recently by a Labour councillor in Oxford, who made it abundantly clear that she would like her local plod to target people who commit the heinous 'crime' of hanging flags from lamp posts!  In leaked audio from an internal council meeting, Cllr Susanna Pressel asks if police can trace the culprits through social media or, failing that, lie in wait and 'nab the bastards'.  "That's the sort of thing I would like to see from the police", she added.

She went on to describe flags placed outside the council building as 'appalling'.

Of course she was referring to her own national flags, which only the left appear to find abhorrent.  One wonders if she would feel the same way if local Muslims were erecting Pakistani or Palestinian flags?  Highly doubtful.  Oxford was the base for some of the most appalling Muslim rape gangs and with key members of one gang released early last year, there is little doubt that such activity is ongoing.  Cllr Pressel has served on the council for a whopping 32 years, during which time it's a safe bet she has not asked the police to 'lie in wait' for the gang rapists.

What about street theft and burglaries?  Violent crime?  All three categories are on the rise in Oxford, but Cllr Pressel thinks police time should be dedicated to 'catching' people erecting British flags on British streets.

Listen to her outburst below.


There has been a very fitting response to Cllr Pressel's remarks, very similar to that which met football commentator Gary Neville's own denunciation of the colours.  Activists have erected flags in the street where she lives!

If Pressel had any sense, she would have toned down the rhetoric after that, but instead she has complained that her neighbours are 'incensed'.  What she actually means is that she is incensed, as her intolerance to the flags is already well known.  Not all of her neighbours will share that hatred towards this country and our flag - if any at all.

She added: "I also hear complaints from a very large number of people who find the flags intimidating and, in fact, racist".  A very large number of people, or just one or two comments on social media?  The bottom of a barrel can be heard being scraped.  The only people who could possibly regard our own national flag 'racist' are treacherous leftist buffoons like Pressel.

Oxfordshire County Council has reportedly somehow spent £15,000 removing flags from lamp posts up to this point.  That is a colossal waste of taxpayers' money that could easily have been saved by simply leaving the flags where they are.

Monday, 19 January 2026

MEME MONDAY #66

The main thing to take away from last week's routine round of nanny state encroachment is this - the government is not abandoning plans for a digital ID.  The framework for digital ID was laid out in 2021 while the scamdemic was still in full swing, but the plans got kicked into the long grass until Keir Starmer resurrected it with his totalitarian announcement last September: "You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID.  It's as simple as that".

Not so now it seems, but don't believe it for one second.  The mandatory aspect may have been removed - in order to appeal to our libertarian values - but it will simply be introduced another way.  It will be presented as a voluntary concept, but over time it will be required to access more and more services until one day you find it impossible to exist without the permission of the state.  Resist the implementation of a social credit system as if all your freedom and privacy depended on it, because it absolutely does.

Mon 12 Jan - 51 shares
Mon 12 Jan - 82 shares
Tue 13 Jan - 459 shares
Tue 13 Jan - 381 shares
Wed 14 Jan - 34 shares
Wed 14 Jan - 37 shares
Thu 15 Jan - 90 shares
Thu 15 Jan - 203 shares
Fri 16 Jan - 55 shares
Sat 17 Jan - 89 shares
Sat 17 Jan - 44 shares
Sun 18 Jan - 225 shares
Sun 18 Jan - 36 shares

Two Facebook Stories were published, including another edition of 'Diversity is Strength'


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Sunday, 18 January 2026

BOATWATCH #42

With the chilly blast over for now, colonist boats leapt from a single unit to eight last week, delivering almost 500 predominantly military-aged males to our shores.

If President Trump - motivated by Israel and oil - attacks and destabilises Iran further, expect this year to be a new all time record.  Iranians presented the overwhelming majority of boat migrants in 2018 and 2019 and remained the top nationality in 2020 and 2021, before being overtaken by Albanians and Afghans in 2022.  The latest available figures for the nationality of boat migrants show that in 2024 over 4,000 Iranians made the crossing, behind only Afghanistan and Syria.


Total = 488 (up 456 from previous week)

Thursday, 15 January 2026

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 15.01.26


The first council contests of 2026 have taken place, with Labour on the defence in York and the Lib Dems in Hampshire.  Labour's vote plummeted in York, but they were starting from a very strong position in a largely middle class ward.  As such, the size of their existing majority gave them a comfortable cushion against challengers from Reform, the Greens and Lib Dems.  Despite all the recent media propagation in favour of Polanski and the (non-existent) 'Green surge', the Lib Dems benefited from a much bigger swing from Labour than the Greens did.

Recent controversial Tory defections to Reform did not appear to damage their electoral appeal - judging by this brace, which included an impressive gain from the Lib Dems in Hampshire.  Labour finished last here, garnering a pathetic 35 votes.

Bridgemary, Gosport Borough Council

Ref: 604 (42.5%) New
LDm: 575 (40.5%) -8.0%
Con: 207 (14.6%) -23.7%
Lab: 35 (2.5%) -10.8%

Ref GAIN from LDm

Heworth, City of York Council

Lab: 1,096 (36.7%) -27.3%
Ref: 601 (20.1%) New
Grn: 591 (19.8%) +4.4%
LDm: 528 (17.7%) +10.2%
Con: 118 (4.0%) -9.1%
Ind: 49 (1.6%) New

Lab HOLD

25 AND COUNTING

25 local authorities have requested that council elections due to be held this May are postponed.  The overwhelming majority of these councils are either Labour controlled or Labour led.  Labour have outright control in 14, are the senior partner in a coalition (Basildon) and lead as minority administrations in a further four.  The government is almost certain to grant all the requested delays - including the six councils not run by Labour.

The government is currently in the midst of reorganising local authorities in England, ostensibly to reduce the number of councils that overlap each other and replace them with larger single unitary authorities.  Some councils - by no means all - argue that holding elections during this period of reorganisation is unfeasible.  However, many have noted that ongoing election delays and cancellations has coincided with the rise of Reform UK.  With Labour councils forming the bulk of those asking for delays, they are being accused of running scared and clinging onto power in the face of Reform gains.

Last month the government approved the cancellation of four regional mayoral elections until 2028, leading to a Tory accusation that Labour were 'subverting democracy'.  This followed on from cancelled elections in 18 council areas last May.

There is no doubt that Reform would have won a significant chunk of the cancelled elections, which - combined with other authoritarian policies - does no end of damage to Britain's standing as a democracy.  Keir Starmer is quite rightly being seen as a despot in some global quarters.  How much further will he lurch towards outright fascism before he is forced out of office?

The following 25 authorities have so far requested delays (more are expected in the coming days).  Where no party has overall control (NOC), the composition of the authority appears in brackets - either a coalition of two or more parties or a minority administration.
  • Adur District Council - Lab
  • Basildon Borough Council - NOC (Lab/Ind)
  • Blackburn with Darwen Council - Lab
  • Burnley Borough Council - NOC (Ind/LDm/Grn)
  • Cheltenham Borough Council - LDm
  • Chorley Borough Council - Lab
  • Crawley Borough Council - Lab
  • East Sussex County Council - NOC (Con min)
  • Exeter City Council - Lab
  • Hastings Borough Council - NOC (Grn min)
  • Hyndburn Borough Council - Lab
  • Ipswich Borough Council - Lab
  • Lincoln City Council - Lab
  • Norwich City Council - NOC (Lab min)
  • Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council - NOC (Lab min)
  • Pendle Borough Council - NOC (LDm/Ind)
  • Peterborough City Council - NOC (Lab min)
  • Preston City Council - Lab
  • Redditch Borough Council - Lab
  • Rugby Borough Council - NOC (Lab min)
  • Stevenage Borough Council - Lab
  • Tamworth Borough Council - Lab
  • Thurrock Borough Council - Lab
  • West Sussex County Council - Con
  • Worthing Borough Council - Lab

Tuesday, 13 January 2026

TOON TUESDAY #86

It's a wintry theme this week, which includes the welcome return of Patrick Blower to active service with The Telegraph...

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Dave Brown for The Independent
Guy Venables for Metro
Peter Schrank for The Times
Graeme Bandeira for The Northern Agenda
Martin Rowson for The Guardian
Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph
Peter Schrank for The Times

Monday, 12 January 2026

MEME MONDAY #65

Karl is meming more regularly now, although some things have been kicked into the long grass for now - in particular some videos he was working on before family strife took over.  The return of Woke Wednesdays is likely to be pushed back to mid-February, but Toon Tuesday could return as early as tomorrow.

Mon 5 Jan - 78 shares
Tue 6 Jan - 124 shares
Wed 7 Jan - 61 shares
Thu 8 Jan - 147 shares
Thu 8 Jan - 69 shares
Sun 11 Jan - 411 shares
Sun 11 Jan - 334 shares
Sun 11 Jan - 19 shares

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FACEBOOK'S AI CENSORS STRIKE AGAIN

We received a strike against one of our Facebook pages over the weekend, courtesy of their AI tool.  As with our most previous strike almost twelve months ago, the tool flagged up an historical meme and removed it.  This time, the meme was bizarrely flagged for 'sexual activity', despite there being no sexual activity present.  The screenshot below shows the removed meme, which was posted to the backup page two years ago.


A brief outline of the Facebook rule on sexual activity was provided, but as any human being would see - there was no sexual activity present.  The full small print of the rule additionally refers to 'adult nudity', which amounts to 'photorealistic/digital imagery of adult nudity'.  The crude depiction found on the meme can hardly be described as 'photorealistic'.


Facebook strikes generally result in a period of reduced page distribution, which hits us in the pocket.  As such, Karl swiftly appealed the decision, in the hope that a human moderator would see sense.  However, the AI tool took over again and rejected the appeal almost instantly - within a minute - informing us that it had 'confirmed that the post does not follow our community standards on sexual activity'.

What a joke?

If you thought the meme was funny and would like to share it somewhere, the original can be found below.